Mispronunciation can be a comedic device. (Zach Galifianakis has regularly used the device in situational comedy.) I was trying to discuss the device formally, but couldn't recall a formal term for this device, and could only relate it to malapropism. But malapropism involves using a similar...

I don't remember much but here's what I do remember: There were two novels featuring a group of elite Union soldiers, both would have been published around 2010, but not later than 2012. The first novel was set during the civil war and had a steamboat featured heavily. The second was about one...